敛声匿迹

敛声匿迹 in English

liǎn shēng nì jì: (idiom) To make no noise and show no trace of oneself. It describes hiding away and avoiding public appearance.

Character breakdown

敛斂 liàn to prepare a dead body for coffin
声聲 shēng sound
匿 nì to hide
迹 jì (bound form) trace

Stroke order

Le caractère 声 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 声

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 迹 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 迹

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

敛

These are the forms of 斂, the traditional character: 敛 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

声

These are the forms of 聲, the traditional character: 声 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 11 forms

匿

Bronze script 商代晚期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 9 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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